"Be the change you want to see in the world."
Gandhi
Weather, Lines, Video and Tape
To understand the current problem of global warming we must place ourselves on the timeline and look to the past. Since the Industrial Revolution , according to various scientific studies, environmental temperature has progressively increased, generating changes in the bioclimate and a series of environmental problems, both global and regional; Due to this shocking reality, scientists and environmentalists are making efforts to raise awareness and involve citizens around this major problem and in the face of the questionable official absence in this very worrying phenomenon.
The vulnerability of the artist in the face of these atmospheric phenomena that place us, the case of Caribbean creators, in the middle of the eye of new artistic currents and the ways of assuming the fragility of our territories, make the artist a storytelling * making it a participant in our own reality, establishing a link in which works are explored, narrated and created that arouse true involvement through art as a catalyst axis before these “natural” phenomena, typical of their environment in the face of an inevitable truth such as change. climate.
In recent years, the Dominican Republic and the rest of the Caribbean have been affected by cyclones, storms and earthquakes that have caused major environmental disasters and human losses, due to their long trail of destruction: river overflows and landslides, disasters that have caused cut-off areas and constant changes in landscapes, generating a physical, economic and social impact, which places us as one of the most vulnerable regions in the world.
These constant attacks on the environment deeply touch the artist and urged by these shocking realities, he generates new languages as a transformative, cathartic and hopeful incentive through different media. Weather , Lines , Video and Tape , is a curatorial proposal from the Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo Gallery, where art is put at the service of the responsibility of the environment and in its rhetoric reveals a work that generates and creates awareness of the world that surrounds and challenges the artist.
Eliazar Ortiz, Frances Gallardo , Charlie Quezada, Patricia Castillo ( Patutus ) and as guest artist Fermín Ceballos, make a reflective, critical and questioning approach to environmental issues, generating diverse dialogues that lead us to this question: can art serve and help us? in the face of our collective challenges as a transformative axis in the face of these natural disasters?
- Orlando Isaac, Curator.
